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I have four 17 inch window maker rims I'm planning on scrapping but before I do are the centers worth keeping for anyone who plans on putting new rings in order to maintain the large 6 bolt pattern. These came off the Mercury M 350
As the 17.5” tubeless versions have become harder and harder to find, remounting centers will become the main option to retain an original look. Someday we’ll kick ourselves for scraping this stuff. I’m cleaning out the barn right now and am having this same discussion with myself. Stu
I've been slowly cleaning up what I have no use for . I threw out the housing for the rear axle but still have the carrier with 5:14 gears plus the axles. Also have a heavy duty 3 speed transmission I'll never use. Biggest problems with parts like this is weight and where I live is not very close to anyone needing it..
Keep it all! Don't ever throw anything away. Maybe scrap prices will spike and your heirs will thank you some day. Or maybe they will curse you for being a crazy hoarder man?
Seriously though I am cleaning out the shed now. Scrap is up some so at least I can get my gas money back. When I don't have anything but steel I call it a win to get fuel money and enough left over for lunch. Wish I lived closer to the yard.
My flush of junk is to make space for better junk. I’m finishing off stripping down two MHs and need the floor space for axles and shelf space for transfer cases. Too much stuff. Stu
I just returned from Carlisle with NOS tranny and clutch parts I've been carrying around for 5 years. Boy are they heavy. I only have two bins half full and they are so heavy. It's a struggle to carry them to the second floor of my garage. I am thinking of scrapping them but hate to through away good NOS parts.
I will start a thread on this later with more details.
My flush of junk is to make space for better junk. I’m finishing off stripping down two MHs and need the floor space for axles and shelf space for transfer cases. Too much stuff. Stu
If you don't have 5000 squares of shop, at some point you are moving or tripping over stuff daily and it has little potential value. It's hard to be the least bit efficient when you try to work. This is the first time in a while I have been there, but I am there for sure. I built a man a very high end motor for his stang three years ago. There lies his old shortblock in the main shop area because it's heavy and hard to load. It's worth exactly what it weighs. Thankfully most of my junk is easy enough to load on a trailer.
I think of how many one piece 19.5" rims end up at the scrap dealer along with useable multi-part wheels from IH and Dodge trucks because no one thinks they are of any use to anyone.
I have in the past tried to save as many useable parts from trucks and cars I have bought as parts vehicles. Being that most were rusty hulks that didn't have many good body parts I saved other parts I know aren't reproduced in the hope that someone, some day might need the parts. Just come over and look at my storage area in my shop and in my barn. I keep the stuff until I have moved it 2-3 times and have tripped over them many more times and then finally take them to the scrap yard. Guaranteed, 2-3 later someone here or on another discussion board will post that they are desperately needing the part I just scrapped and can't find it anywhere. Never fails but you can't keep amassing junk. I'm hoping to head down to the scrap yard this week some time with the remnants of a '38 Buick I bought and salvaged parts from. Luckily with this one I was able to find homes for most of the good parts that were left of in when I bought it.
I just returned from Carlisle with NOS tranny and clutch parts I've been carrying around for 5 years. Not are they heavy. I only have two bins half full of they are so heavy. It's a struggle to carry them to the second floor of my garage. I am thinking of scrapping them but hate to through away good NOS parts.
I will start a thread on this later with more details.
You make an attempt or two to sell that stuff for a reasonable price. If there is no interest there is your sign. I have never found it hard to find new stuff to hoard.
I need to take some pictures for you guys. I put in a well pump this year for a classmate of my brother. He’s around 77 years old. He’s quite the machinist as he’s build about 7 hot rods in his lifetime. He showed me one with 20” rear wheels.
He welded centers of his choice of bolt pattern onto 20” widowmakers. He welded the widowmakers shut which of course won’t allow you to mount tires on it. He then cut out areas in the wheel to allow the tire to be mounted and bolted plates over that area. I need pictures to explain. I must visit him.
Can you separate the rim on these widow maker so you can remove the tire. I've never dealt with them before. All I've done was bleed all the air out of them..
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